"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/16/2025

 

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• All In My Love For You / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill
• I'm In Love All Over / Larry Stephenson / Everytime I Sing A Love Song / Webco
• The Sweetest Song I Sing / Hot Rize / Radio Boogie / Flying Fish
• 'Til The End Of The World Rolls 'Round / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• Love Bug / The Kody Norris Show / All Suited Up / Rebel
• My Heart Skips A Beat / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• What A Wonderful Life / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• She Paints A Picture / Gibson Brothers / Another Night Of Waiting / Hay Holler
• Love At Last / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• You're That Certain Someone / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder
• Today's The Day I Get My Gold Watch And Chain / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Rebel [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• Highway Of Sorrow / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1951-1954 / JSP Records
• You're Still On My Mind / Matt & George & Their Pleasant Valley Boys / Blue Grass Style / Self-Produced
• Close The Door Lightly When You Go / Lonesome River Band / Chronology, Volume 1 / Rural Rhythm
• Follow The Leader / Jimmy Gaudreau / In Good Company / CMH
• All I Have To Offer You Is Me / Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice / Trouble Follows Me / Rebel
• Sophronie / Audie Blaylock / A Tribute To Jimmy Martin--The King Of Bluegrass / Koch Records
• Singing Waterfall / Warrior River Boys / Sounds LIke Home / Rounder [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• Bright Sherman Valley / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• Blue Ain't The Word / The Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel
• Lonely As It Gets / Wilson Banjo Co. / Lonely As It Gets / Pinecastle
• Nothing Like Trouble / Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road / single / Pinecastle
• Katie And Burl / Unspoken Tradition / single / Mountain Home
• With A Vamp In The Middle / Michael Cleveland & Jason Carter / single / Fiddleman Records
• The Likes Of Me / Jason Carter / Lowdown Hoedown / Fiddleman Records
• Daisey Mae / Jason Carter / On The Move / Rounder
• Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello / Ernest Tubb / The Definitive Collection / MCA [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Drivin' Nails In My Coffin / Rhonda Vincent / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Soldier's Last Letter / Osborne Brothers / The Ernest Tubb Song Folio / Pinecastle [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Letters Have No Arms / Flatt Lonesome / Too / Mountain Home [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Waltz Across Texas / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Walking The Floor Over You / Ernest Tubb / 20th Century Masters / MCA [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• It Don't Bring You Back To Me / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956]
• Six More Miles / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders:  A Tribute To Ralph Stanley / Rebel [Don Rigsby birthday, 2/18/1968]
• Like A Bird In A Cage / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• Frog On A Lilly Pad / Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show / Take Me Back / Pinecastle
• Red Bandana / Laura Orshaw / single / Dark Shadow Recording
• My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darlin' / California / Traveler / Sugar Hill
• She's Heavenly / Del McCoury Band with Molly Tuttle / Songs Of Love And Life / McCoury Music
• Pretty Polly / Ralph Stanley with Patty Loveless / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel
• You Left Me Alone / Sam Bush / Circles Around Me / Sugar Hill
• Meet Me By The Moonlight / Dudley Connell & Don Rigsby / Meet Me By The Moonlight / Sugar Hill [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956; Don Rigsby birthday, 2/18/1968]
• The Touch Of God's Hand / Longview / Longview / Rounder
• Shouting On The Hills Of Glory / Ralph Stanley with Ricky Skaggs / Clinch Mountain Country / Rebel
• The Other Side Of Heaven / Greg Blake & Hometown / The View From Home / Get It Played
• Run On / Cody Shuler & Pine Mountain Railroad / Pickin', Praisin', Singin':  Hymns From The Mountain / Rural Rhythm
• One Is Taken, One Is Left / Case Brothers / Radio Album / Self-Produced
• The Place Prepared For Me / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• I'll Be Happy In My Home / Jeremy Stephens with Paul Brewster / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Harbor Of Love / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder
• Blue Grass Twist / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 9/22/2024

Happy Fall!  Our first Bluegrass Cafe of the season started with several songs sort of related to Fall.  The bulk of the show was devoted to paying tribute to two Country Music Hall of Fame members born in mid-September, and we also took some time to remember a favorite traditional mandolin master who has left us too soon. 

David Davis (2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024)

David Davis was a first-class entertainer and bandleader of the Warrior River Boys since 1984, and he will be greatly missed.  Though the Warrior River Boys were based in Alabama, for many years, it seemed like they were a local band, as WRB played all sorts of festivals and shows throughout New England constantly, it seemed.  It was during that time that the band made many fans and friends throughout New England.  David Davis was a throwback type of entertainer, and he will be greatly missed.  To honor him, we shared lots of music from recordings made by David Davis & the Warrior River Boys between 1990 and 2018.  If you would like to read more about the remarkable life of David Davis, please read this wonderful eulogy published recently in Bluegrass Today.  Rest in peace, David Davis.  Thanks for the music.

Both Roy Acuff (September 15, 1903 - November 23, 1992) and Hank Williams (September 17, 1923 - January 1, 1953) may be members of the Country Music Hall of Fame, but we'll always remember them during our Bluegrass Cafe as their music has been often covered by all sorts of Bluegrass performers.  

This coming week, the International Bluegrass Music Association's World of Bluegrass event happens in Raleigh, North Carolina.  I'll be heading down there on Tuesday, so will have a full report for you about all of the happenings during next Sunday's show.  Hope you can join me then.

Have a great week!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL [Requests are RED]

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• The Leaves That Are Green / J.D. Crowe & the New South / Celebration Of Life / Skaggs Family Records
• Autumn Fell / Authentic Unlimited / Authentic Unlimited / Billy Blue Records
• When Fall Comes To New England / Kristin Scott Benson with Claire Lynch / Stringworks / Mountain Home
• Leaves Musn't Fall / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1950-1951 / JSP Records
• The Old Home Place / The Dillards / There Is A Time (1963-70) / Vanguard
• Smokey Mountain Memories / Spinney Brothers / When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall / Self-Produced
• (It Was) Late Last Night / Stanley Brothers / Don't Cheat In Our Hometown / Starday King
• Leavin' You And Mobile, Too / Lost & Found / Across The Blue Ridge Mountains / Rebel
• Bright Sherman Valley / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• Today's The Day I Get My Gold Watch And Chain / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Rebel [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• Farewell To Long Hollow / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine / Scott Brannon & David Davis / Plum Pitiful / Time Life [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• Never Looking Back / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Two Dimes And A Nickel / Rebel [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• Rocky Mountain Sweetheart / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Retrospective:  Live, 1984-2014 / Davis Music [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• Milwaukee Blues / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Troubled Times / Rebel [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• I Don't Know What To Do / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• He Rambled / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Didn't He Ramble:  Songs Of Charlie Poole / Rounder [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• Fall In Tennessee / Authentic Unlimited feat. Jerry Douglas / So Much For Forever / Billy Blue Records
• Kentucky Gold / Dale Ann Bradley with Sam Bush / Kentucky For Me / Pinecastle
• Forever Young / Daniel Grindstaff feat. Paul Brewster & Dolly Parton / Heroes And Friends / Bonfire Recording Co.
• Too Lonely, Way Too Long / Rick Faris with Del McCoury / Uncommon Sky / Dark Shadow Recording
• Listen To The Lonesome Wind / Missy Raines / Highlander / Compass Records
• Not A Word From Home / Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys / Diamond Joe / Rounder [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Wreck On The Highway / Tennessee Mafia Jug Band / Barnyard Frolic / RME Records [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Night Train To Memphis / Bristol Boys / All Aboard With The Bristol Boys / Self-Produced [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• Write Me Sweetheart / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / A School Of Bluegrass / Crossroads [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• The Precious Jewel / Roy Acuff / The Prodigal Son / Country Stars [Remembering Roy Acuff:  9/15/1903 - 11/23/1992]
• I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind / Lonesome River Band / Carrying The Tradition / Rebel [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Dear John / Adam Steffey / Here To Stay / Mountain Home [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Why Don't You Love Me / Gene Wooten / A Picture Of Hank:  The New Bluegrass Wa/ Mercury [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight / Jim Mills with Alan O'Bryant / Bound To Ride / Sugar Hill [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Move It On Over / Hank Williams / Hillbilly Hero / Proper [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Wanderers Like Me / Po' Ramblin' Boys / Wanderers Like Me / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Someone Took My Place With You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / Selected Cuts, 1952-1955 / JSP Records
• El Dorado / Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway / City Of Gold / Nonesuch Records
• Could I Knock On Your Door / Jeremy Stephens / How I Hear It / Rebel
• Roll On Buddy / Tony Trischka with Del McCoury / Earl Jam / Down The Road Records
• Ragged Man / Gibson Brothers / Bona Fide / Sugar Hill
• Scotty's Hoedown / Bronwyn Keith-Hynes / I Built A World / Sugar Petunia Records
• I Saw The Light / Hank Williams / Hillbilly Hero / Proper [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Lay My Burdens Down / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• Don't Act / Rhonda Vincent / All American Bluegrass Girl / Rounder 
• Come On, Dear Lord, And Get Me / Country Gentlemen / Calling My Children Home / Rebel
• The Truth, The Light, The Way / Darin & Brooke Aldridge / Blue Collar Gospel:  From The Pen Of Rick Lang / Billy Blue Records
• It's Just An Old Body / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Rebel [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• I'm A Pilgrim / High Fidelity / Music In My Soul / Rebel
• On The Jericho Road / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Retrospective:  Live, 1984-2014 / Davis Music [Remembering David Davis:  2/16/1961 - 9/15/2024]
• I Saw The Light / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Anthology / MCA [Remembering Hank Williams:  9/17/1923 - 1/1/1953]
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder

"Bluegrass Cafe" playlist - 2/14/2021

 

It's February 14th, so I guess that means it's time to say Happy Valentine's Day!  Hope you've had a nice day surrounded by the things (or people!) you love.  

Our radio show for today included lots of songs concerning matters of the heart -- and so, there were songs both of broken hearts and songs filled with positive love stories.  We may share a few more from both categories in next week's show, so hope you can join us.

February may be a short month, but it is one filled with lots of birthdays to be celebrated.  This week, we shared songs from several birthday celebrants, including Dudley Connell, David Davis, Claire Lynch, Mark Newton, and Don Rigsby.

We also remembered another Country Music Hall of Famer whose birthday would have been celebrated on the day this show was recorded (February 9th) -- Ernest Tubb (February 9, 1914 - September 6, 1984).  E.T.'s songs have been covered by lots of Bluegrass performers over the years, and we shared a few of those in tribute to the Texas Troubadour.

This show was completed and submitted for airplay to WHUS before the sad news came on Thursday of the death of a fine Bluegrass guitar player, and all-around nice young man, Aaron Foster.  If you have ever attended a Bluegrass festival in the northeast over the past 10+ years, you have likely seen Aaron jamming, playing on a stage, or directing a Kids' Academy.  Read this fine remembrance of Aaron (also known as "Frosty") that was published in Bluegrass Today on Thursday, February 11th:  Aaron "Frosty" Foster, gone way too soon at 28 - Bluegrass Today  Sincere condolences to Aaron's family and many friends, and we'll be sure to share some of his music during our broadcast on February 21st.

Enjoy your week, and stay healthy!

Amy O.

SONG / PERFORMER / ALBUM / LABEL

• Katy Hill / Del McCoury Band / RockyGrass / Blue Planet
• Ace Of Hearts / Mile Twelve / Onwards / Delores The Taurus Records
• Blackmail Your Heart / Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass / The Tradition Continues / Brandywine
• Blue Love (In My Heart) / Hot Flashes / Eponymous / Happy Appy Records
• Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder / Lou Reid / When It Rains / Sugar Hill
• A Broken Heart Keeps Beatin' / Traditional Grass / Songs Of Love And Life / Rebel
• Crazy Heart / James King / Lonesome And Then Some / Rounder
• Brand New Heartache / Cherryholmes / Cherryholmes / Skaggs Family Records
• Hard Hearted / Jim & Jesse / In The Tradition / Rounder
• Cross My Broken Heart / Feinberg Brothers / Party For One / Cabinwood Music
• Heartaches / Country Gentlemen / Folk Session Inside / Copper Creek
• Heartache Looking For A Home / Charlie Sizemore Band / Heartache Looking For A Home / Rounder
• Crying My Heart Out Over You / Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs / 16 Biggest Hits / Columbia Legacy
• Evil Hearted Woman / Parmley & McCoury / Families Of Tradition / BGC
• Drivin' Nails In My Coffin / Rhonda Vincent / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Driftwood On The River / Osborne Brothers / The Ernest Tubb Song Folio / Pinecastle [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Waltz Across Texas / Johnson Mountain Boys / At The Old Schoolhouse / Rounder [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Sweet Thang / Donna & Roni Stoneman with Tom Mindte / The Legend Continues / Patuxent Music [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Letters Have No Arms / Flatt Lonesome / Too / Mountain Home [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Walkin' The Floor Over You / Ernest Tubb / The Definitive Collection / MCA [Remembering Ernest Tubb:  2/9/1914 - 9/6/1984]
• Watermelon On The Vine / Del McCoury Band / Old Memories / McCoury Music
• Readin', Rightin' [sic], Route 23 / Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers / Industrial Strength Bluegrass / Smithsonian Folkways
• Love Bug / Kody Norris Show / single / Rebel
• All In My Love For You / Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / My Heart Is Yours / Sugar Hill
• You're That Certain Someone / Warrior River Boys / New Beginnings / Rounder
• My Heart Skips A Beat / Lynn Morris Band / The Lynn Morris Band / Rounder
• The Sweetest Song I Sing / Hot Rize / Radio Boogie / Flying Fish
• Rose Of My Heart / Traver Hollow / By Request / Self-Produced
• What A Wonderful Life / Spinney Brothers / Memories / Mountain Fever Records
• Love At Last / Bear Bridge Band / Broken Hearts & Better Times / Open Road
• A Daisy A Day / Wilma Lee Cooper / A Daisy A Day / Rebel
• Prettier All The Time / Feinberg Brothers / Songs We Sing / Cabinwood Music
• Just Lovin' You / Gibson Brothers / Help My Brother / Compass Records
• Love Bug / Lost & Found / January Rain / Rebel
• He Rambled / David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / Didn't He Ramble:  Songs Of Charlie Poole / Rounder [David Davis birthday, 2/16/1961]
• It Don't Bring You Back To Me / Johnson Mountain Boys / Blue Diamond / Rounder [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956]
• Tennessee Truck Drivin' Man / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders / Rebel [Don Rigsby birthday, 2/18/1968]
• My Florida Sunshine / Claire Lynch / Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration / Rounder [Claire Lynch birthday, 2/20/1954]
• Hard Times In Kentucky / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Mark Newton birthday, 2/20/1957]
• Darling Nelly Bly / Eddie Adcock / Vintage Banjo Jam / Patuxent Music
• When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder / Virginia Squires / The Best Of The Virginia Squires / Rebel [Mark Newton birthday, 2/20/1957]
• God Sees Me / Flashback / Blues Around My Corner / Pinecastle [Don Rigsby birthday, 2/18/1968]
• Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout / Claire Lynch / Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout / Billy Blue Records [Claire Lynch birthday, 2/20/1954]
• In The Garden / Warrior River Boys / Retrospective:  1984-2014 / Self-Produced [David Davis birthday, 2/16/1961]
• Call His Name / Johnson Mountain Boys / Working Close / Rounder [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956]
• Going Up On The Mountain / Seldom Scene / DreamScene / Sugar Hill [Dudley Connell birthday, 2/18/1956]
• Way Down Deep In My Soul / Warrior River Boys / Sounds Like Home / Rounder [David Davis birthday, 2/16/1961]
• Voice Of My Savior / Mark Newton with Claire Lynch / Follow Me To The Fold / Rebel [Claire Lynch birthday, 2/20/1954; Mark Newton birthday, 2/20/1957]
• Traveling The Highway Home / Don Rigsby / Doctor's Orders / Rebel [Don Rigsby birthday, 2/18/1968]
• I'll Answer The Call / Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys / Country Bluegrass Homecoming, Volume 1 / GGS Music
• Calling The Prodigal / Corrina Rose Logston & Jeremy Stephens / Songs Of Home And Inspiration / Self-Produced
• Just Rehearsing / Louvin Brothers / Close Harmony / Bear Family
• Let My Life Be A Light / Balsam Range / Aeonic / Mountain Home
• Kneel At The Cross / Bluegrass Patriots / E Pluribus Bluegrass / Red Feather
• Feel Like My Time Ain't Long / Country Gentlemen / Bluegrass:  World's Greatest Show / Sugar Hill
• Pray The Clouds Away / Doyle Lawson, J.D. Crowe, Paul Williams / Old Friends Get Together / Mountain Home
• When The Angels Sing / Rhonda Vincent / The Storm Still Rages / Rounder
• Won't It Be Wonderful There / Dailey & Vincent / Brothers Of The Highway / Rounder
• Shine, Hallelujah Shine / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys / Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, 1946-1949 / JSP Records
• Black Mountain Blues / Johnson Mountain Boys / Requests / Rounder